Library Quote by Letitia James

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

— Jill Abramson

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the…

— Vito Acconci

All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can…

— Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you…

— Zadie Smith

Libraries are not made, they grow.

— Augustine Birrell

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

— Dick Van Dyke

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with…

— Enrique Penalosa

In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

— Evgeny Morozov

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

— Anonymous

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

— Samuel Johnson